Love at the Hawthorn Tree is a drama, romance-type film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Zhou Dongyu and Dou Snapdragon, which was released on September 16, 2010 in China.

The film tells the story of Jingqiu, a student about to graduate from high school in the city in the early 1970s, who follows an educational and revolutionary practice group to a place called Xiping Village to collect revolutionary stories for the preparation of teaching materials. Laosan waits for Jingqiu to graduate, waits for Jingqiu to work, waits for Jingqiu to be regularized, and waits until all of Jingqiu's wishes have come true, and then they meet again under the hawthorn tree. The character of Lao San is just a kind of inner yearning of the author for the character of men from the perspective of women, because this character is just too perfect. He is kind, optimistic, infatuated, and devoted to the people he loves all the time. The reason why the emotion between him and Jingqiu is so touching is because in today's era of deceit and materialism, we have rarely seen such a beautiful love fairy tale.

In 2011, the film was nominated for Best Asian Film at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony.On August 17, 2018, it was named as the first Chinese Shuangtashan Love Movie Week Top Ten Outstanding Chinese Love Movies for the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up.

Some of the make-out scenes in the original Love at the Hawthorn Tree are rather daring, but there is not even a kissing scene in the movie. Zhang Yimou said, the original description of those or more "exposed", "I think the Chinese film has its own unique way of expression, I still follow the traditional expression. In addition, if you deliberately make an effort to make out in the scene, you will also encounter a lot of trouble."

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